[Brian]

I had almost exactly the same experience as Atreinke. It's tempting to assign deadlines for motivational purposes, but it's really easy to end up wasting time repeatedly postponing them, and you end up growing gradually numb to the real deadlines, too.

I have a ton of tasks I want to do "someday" in my database, but they don't get deadlines until I decide to actually do them. "Might do" items stay in the database and get looked at during reviews, but they stay off the action lists. (I use perspectives to keep a bunch of my projects invisible except during review time. I can add items from quick entry, but I don't want them distracting me from the projects I'm working on.)